Mira Sytsma, MSc Student

Research Interests: Modeling, quantifying, and understanding changes in terrestrial wildlife activity and occupancy in response to human interactions, climate change, and succession due to deglaciation.

Madelon van de Kerk, Postdoctoral Researcher

I am a wildlife and conservation ecologist interested in the use of quantitative methods to understand population dynamics and the ecological processes and patterns driving them. I am currently involved in the NASA Arctic and Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE), for which I aim to assess alpine ecosystem vulnerability to environmental change using Dall sheep as an indicator species.

Education

Peter Mahoney, Postdoctoral Researcher

I am a conservation ecologist with a keen interest in research pertaining to animal movement and space use, particularly as they relate to multi-species interactions and predator-prey processes. I am currently a researcher with the Animals on the Move team, a NASA-funded ABoVE collaboration, where we are tasked with developing insights into how climate change and variability (past and future) will influence movements and space use in arctic and boreal forest vertebrates, such as Dall sheep, moose, wolves, and brown bears.